English Rules

SUMMARY
1 - General and registration
2 - Federation and Nation
3 - Conduct of the national cup
4 - Conduct of the platinum division
5 - Platinum Division Accession
6 - Conduct of a match

1 – Generality and registration
Article 1.1
This competition brings together teams from a community of "Grand Prix Racing Online". Participation is not systematic. Each team wishing to participate must apply, and register at the beginning of each season. This registration must be made at the beginning of the season, before the first GP.

Article 1.2a
To register, each team must provide a standard composition of 5 players minimum + 1 substitute (maximum 6 players + 1 substitute), as well as to appoint a team captain. This standard composition will be used only in the absence of composition sent on time. (Article 6.7 in its entirety).
Registration will only be valid once this composition has been sent and validated.

Article 1.2b
A team must have a minimum of 5 players to participate in the competition. In this case there will be no substitute in composition.
To give the opportunity to small structures to participate, there can be alliances between 2 teams. This alliance must meet these rules:
- The team must find a name mentioning the 2 teams of origins.
- An alliance can be made between maximum 2 teams.
- The total of players of these 2 teams must not exceed 12.
- If the number of players is> 10, the captain will have to announce at first the 10 players participating in the competition. The others will not be able to participate in this season.

Article 1.3
A typical team can be modified throughout the season by simple request to the organization by usual way (post on registration forum, or PM). It must be notified that this is a "typical team" change. If this notification is not present, the organization will not validate the new typical team. The change will be taken into account for the next round.
Corollary: The sending of a composition for a meeting (Article 6.4) does not include the modification of the standard team. At the end of the meeting, the initial team will be handed over by default. A composition may be both for the next meeting and modification of the team type only on the condition that this information is stipulated by the captain in the sending.

Article 1.4
In case of departure of a player from a team, if this player is in the team type. Two possibilities :
- A typical team can be modified at any time. So if a player leaves a team, the captain can send a new standard composition (Article 1.3).
- In case of absence of modification of the captain, the organizer will name as player the first available player of the team taking into account the rank of each player in the team on gpro (leader of the team, rank 2, rank 3, etc.). A notification will then be sent to the captain.
Note: In case of departure during the game, the starting manager will be considered a DNS.

Article 1.5
The sending of team composition (registration, modification of the standard team, composition of each meeting) can be done either by PM (to the organizer and / or to the community commissioner), or directly on the forum of the Chopped off.

Article 1.6
Each team will be registered in a division. There are the national divisions (Gold, Silver, Bronze and Nickel) and an international division (Platinum), each division will consist of 2 groups. The division of the teams in each division is based on the classification of the season passed using the seed table (Article 3.3).
In the particular case of a creation of national federation, the distribution will be based on the points obtained at the first two Grand Prix of the season. The first 8 teams will be in gold leagues, the next 8 to 16 teams in silver leagues, and so on.

Article 1.7
A match will pit 2 teams out of 5 matches in a format called "Davis Cup":
2 singles - 1 double - 2 singles.
There will be 5 games in a season: 3 group matches and 2 direct elimination matches (or classification match). (Conduct of a meeting Article 6 in its entirety)

Article 1.8
The schedule of the cup will be fixed on the GPRO calendar (1season gpro = 1 season of cut). The course of the cup will be done in three stages:
GP 1 and GP 2 => Encounter (Article 5.2)
GP 3 to GP 11 => Meeting of group phase (Article 3.7)
GP 12 to GP 17 => Final tournament and repechage meeting (Article 3.9 to Article 3.11)

2 – Federation and Nation
Article 2.1
Each team wishing to participate in the Gaulish Cup must be part of a national federation (or group of nations). There will be one cup per nation.

Article 2.2
To set up a national federation, several criteria will be required:
- It will take a minimum of 6 teams in the federation. (Maximum of 32).
- The federation must have a commissioner responsible for monitoring the federation.
- The federation must be validated by the organization.

Article 2.3
To be part of a national federation, the team must have at least 50% team members from that same nation (or nation grouping).

Article 2.4
For international teams not having 50% of a member of the same nation, they will automatically be registered in the International Federation. (Minimum of 6 teams registered).
Four International Federations will be available. 3 Continental (Europe, America and Asia-Oceania) and one World.

Article 2.5
For national teams that do not have a federation (for example for a minimum number of teams not reached), they can be registered in the International Federation, or in a Continental Federation.
Note: If a team with a 50% membership of a continent, it may be registered in the Continental or International Division.
Note bis: When a team is registered in an International or Continental Federation, it can not be changed except to join a National Federation.

3 – National Cup procedure
Article 3.1
The minimum number of entries in a national cup is 6 teams (Article 2.2). This involves filling at least one Gold division of 2 groups of 3 (Group A and Group B).
If the registered team number is greater than 8, the division and group number will be as indicated in Article 3.3.
Note: A derogation may be granted by the organization for a minimum of 6 teams, but this derogation must be done on a case by case basis.

Article 3.2
Several cases depending on the number of registered in the national cup:
- For the Gold division, it is necessary to have between 6 and 8 teams registered.
- For the Silver, Bronze and Nickel divisions, it is necessary to have at least 3 teams per group in the division. So if there are 1, 2 or 5 teams registered, there will be a waiting list. The teams on the waiting list will be automatically qualified for the following season.
Example: If there are 13 teams entered, there will be 8 teams in the Gold Division divided into 2 pools of 4, and a pool of 4 in the Silver Division. The 13th team will be on the waiting list.
And so on for the following divisions if the number of registrants is greater than 32 teams.
Note: As explained in the remark of article 3.1, it will be possible to have only 6 teams in a cup, there will be in this case 2 groups of 3 only.

Article 3.3
Each season, a ranking of the past season allows to establish a seeded table. These seeded players will determine the groups in each division. There are no draws to determine the groups. This order is fixed from one season to another.

Leaderboard	Team	Past Season Division
N°1	Winner Final	Gold Division
N°2	Finalist	Gold Division
N°3	Vainqueur Petite Finale	Gold Division
N°4	Petit Finaliste	Gold Division
N°5	Vainqueur de la Finale Repêchage	Gold Division
N°6	Vainqueur barrages Or/Argent	Gold/Silver Division
N°7	Winner Final	Silver Division
N°8	Finalist	Silver Division
N°9	Vainqueur petite Finale de Repêchage	Gold Division
N°10	Petit Finaliste Repêchage	Gold Division
N°11	Perdant Barrages Or/Argent	Gold/Silver Division
N°12	Petit Finaliste	Silver Division
N°13	Vainqueur de la Finale Repêchage	Silver Division
N°14	Vainqueur barrages Argent/Bronze	Silver/Bronze Division
N°15	Winner Final	Bronze Division
N°16	Finalist	Bronze Division
N°17	Vainqueur petite Finale de Repêchage	Silver Division
N°18	Petit Finaliste Repêchage	Silver Division
N°19	Perdant barrages Argent/Bronze	Silver/Bronze Division
N°20	Petit Finalist	Bronze Division
N°21	Vainqueur de la Finale Repêchage	Bronze Division
N°22	Vainqueur barrages Bronze/Nickel	Bronze/Nickel Division
N°23	Winner Final	Nickel Division
N°24	Finalist	Nickel Division
N°25	Vainqueur petite Finale de Repêchage	Bronze Division
N°26	Petit Finaliste Repêchage	Bronze Division
N°27	Perdant barrages Bronze/Nickel	Bronze/Nickel Division
N°28	Petit Finaliste	Nickel Division
N°29	Vainqueur de la Finale Repêchage	Nickel Division
N°30	finaliste repêchage	Nickel Division
N°31	Vainqueur petite Finale de Repêchage	Nickel Division
N°32	Petit Finaliste Repêchage	Nickel Division

Article 3.4
At the beginning of each season, each team must apply (Article 1.1 and Article 1.2), otherwise it will be withdrawn from the competition. In case of withdrawal of a team, all the teams ranked below in the seed table win a place (Article 3.3). This seeded table is made after the play-offs, between GP2 and GP3.

article 3.5
In case of new arrival, the team will integrate the last active division. If several teams arrive the same season, their seed classification (Article 3.3) to determine the group will be based on the cumulative scores obtained in GP 1 and GP 2.

Article 3.6a
In the OR Division, the distribution of the teams will not be done with a draw but in a fixed manner according to the classification of the competition of the previous season. The number assigned will define the order of the meetings in the group phases:

Group A : team 1- Leaderbord N°1
               team 2- Leaderbord  N°4
               team 3- Leaderbord  N°5
               team 4- Leaderbord  N°8

Group B : team 1- Leaderbord  N°2
               team 2- Leaderbord  N°3
               team 3- Leaderbord  N°6
               team 4- Leaderbord  N°7

Article 3.6b
In the SILVER division, the distribution will be done in the same way: (example in the case of 8 registered teams)

Group A : team 1- Leaderbord  N°9
               team 2- Leaderbord  N°12
               team 3- Leaderbord  N°13
               team 4- Leaderbord  N°16

Group B : team 1- Leaderbord  N°10
               team 2- Leaderbord  N°11
               team 3- Leaderbord  N°14
               team 4- Leaderbord  N°15

And so on in the lower divisions.

Article 3.7
The teams are divided into 2 groups of 4. Each team will face all the other teams in first leg only. The order of the matches will always be identical:
GP 3 to GP 5 => team 1 vs team 2 and team 3 vs team 4
GP 6 to GP 8 => team 1 vs team 3 and team 2 vs team 4
GP 9 to GP 11 => team 1 vs team 4 and team 2 vs team 3
The victory gives 1 point, the defeat 0 points.
Note: In the particular case of group of 3 teams (Article 3.2), the order remains the same except that each day there will be a team exempt. This will be the team that faced team 4. Concretely, team 3 will be exempt from the first meeting, team 2 will be on the second, and team 1 on the third.

Article 3.8
In case of a tie, the teams will be separated successively by the following criteria:
1- the "goal average" of the points obtained at each meeting.
2- The number of points registered on all 3 meetings.
3- The number of points collected on all 3 matches.
4- The result of the match between the two teams.
5- The total of the team points (article 6.9) of the 15 matches (4 singles + 1 doubles on the 3 games) will decide the teams.

Article 3.9
The first of each group will face the second of the other group in the 1/2 final on GP 12 to GP 14, then in the final and small final for GP 15 to 17.

Article 3.10
The 3rd of each group will face the 4th of the other group in the repechage table, with 1/2 final, final and small final.

4 – Conduct of the Platinum Division
Article 4.1
The Platinum Cup (Platinum Division) has the principle of confronting the best teams of each federation.

Article 4.2
The platinum division is an extra level to national cups.
Note: The group number of the division depends on the number of federations and will follow the rule below:
- 2 federations => Platinum division (2x4)
- from 3 to 4 federations => platinum division (2x4)
- from 5 to 7 federations => Platinum division (2x4)
- from 8 to 9 federations => Platinum division (4x4)

Article 4.3
The operation of the platinum cup is the same as for national cups (Article 3 in its entirety). The only differences are the qualification rules of the teams and the up-and-down system between the national division and the international division (Article 4.4).

Article 4.4
For the sake of fairness, and for a nation not to dominate the international cup, there will be a team quota of each federation. This quota will consist of 2 parts: a fixed and a variable.
- The fixed part will always be 1 minimum team per federation.
- A portion of the places will be allocated to the best nations, depending on the number of places remaining. The total number of places to be distributed pro rata according to the number of federations article 5.

Note that the winner of the platinum division and automatically qualified and does not count in the number of places in his nation.

5 – Accession in Platinum Division
Article 5.1
The number of qualified teams per federation (or nation) depends on the number of federations registered according to the distribution of article 4.4.

Article 5.2
Qualification rule based on the number of federations:
- 2 federations: the 2 finalists of each federation are automatically qualified, as well as the winner of the small final. A play-off (on the GP1 and GP2) between the losers of the small final will be the last place.
- 3 federations: the 2 finalists of each federation are automatically qualified, the winners of the small finals of the 2 best federations (article 5.3) will compete on a play-off on the GP1 and GP2.
- 4 federations: Only the winner of each federation will be automatically qualified, as well as the finalist of the 2 best federations (article 5.3). The finalists of the other 2 federations will compete on a play-off on the GP1 and GP2
- 5 federations: the 2 finalists of each federation are automatically qualified, as well as the winner of the small final.
- 6 federations: the 2 finalists of each federation are automatically qualified, the winners of each small final will be qualified for the dams. A seeded ranking determined by as indicated in article 5.3, the ranked 1st team will play against the 6th, the 2nd against the 5th, and finally 3rd against the 4th. The winner of each dam will be qualified.
- 7 federations: the 2 finalists of each federation are automatically qualified, the winners of the small finals of the 2 best federations (article 5.3) will play a qualifying match for the last place.
- 8 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 6 best federations (article 5.3) will also be qualified. The finalists of the last 2 federations will compete in a play-off match. The winner of this match will be qualified.
- 9 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 4 best federations (article 5.3) will also be qualified. The finalists of the 5th to the 8th ranked federations will play in the play-offs, the 5th against the 8th and the 6th against the 9th. The winners of these matches will be qualified.
- 10 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. All finalists will compete in the play-offs. A seeded ranking determined by as indicated in article 5.3, the ranked 1st team will play against the 10th, the 2nd against the 9th, the 3rd against the 8th, the 4th against the 7th, and finally the 5th facing the 6th. The winner of each dam will be qualified.
- 11 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 8 best federations (article 5.3) will compete in a play-off. The federation ranked 1st against 8th, 2nd against 7th, 3rd against 6th, and 4th against 5th. The winners of these matches will be qualified.
- 12 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 6 best federations (article 5.3) will compete in the play-offs. The federation ranked 1st against 6th, 2nd against 5th, 3rd against 4th. The winners of these matches will be qualified.
- 13 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 4 best federations (article 5.3) will compete in the play-offs. The federation ranked 1st against 4th, 2nd against 3rd. The winners of these matches will be qualified.
- 14 federations: the winner of each federation is automatically qualified. The finalists of the 2 best federations (article 5.3) will compete in the play-offs. The winner of this match will be qualified.
- 15 federations: Only the winner of each federation will be automatically qualified.

Article 5.3
To determine the best federations in Article 5.2, The average number of points scored by a Gold Division team last season. To do this it will be necessary to make the total points scored by each team throughout the season in the Gold Division (ie the 4 singles and doubles of the 5 games), which will calculate an average per team.

Article 5.2
The play-offs will be held on GP 1 and GP 2 of the following season. The first two singles will take place on the GP 1 and the second 2 singles and the double will be held on the GP 2

6 – Conduct of a meeting
Article 6.1
An encounter opposes two teams that compete in the form of a Davis Cup round.

Article 6.2
5 games are played, 4 singles and one double, each match gives 1 point. The winner is the team that wins at least 3 matches of the match.

Article 6.3
A meeting is spread over 3 successive GPs. The first two singles are made on the first Grand Prix of the series. The double on the second Grand Prix. Finally the last two singles on the third Grand Prix.

Article 6.4
Each team establishes a composition of 5 minimum players + 1 substitute (6 players maximum + 1 substitute). The latter will take the place of a holder in case of DNS of the latter. In case of second DNS, there will be a fixed price and the point will be given to the opposing team. And so on for the following DNS.
Special case note, if two teams have 2 DNS on the same encounter, the point will be given to the team that of the most basic ingame gpro division. In case of a new tie, the team that has made its first DNS later will have the point. If new equality, will be taken into account the number of DNS of each of the 2 participants. The one who did the least will be qualified.

Article 6.5
When composing each team, the captain must indicate the order of passage (single player 1, single player 2, double player, etc.). This order of passage is important because a match will make confront the 2 members of simple 1, then the 2 members of simple 2, etc.

Article 6.6
All the titular players will have to make at least one match. Only one player will be able to make 2, with the obligation that one of these 2 matches is double.
Corollary: the same player can not do 2 singles. If the team contains 6 players, no player will be able to make 2 matches in the same match.

Article 6.7a
The composition of the teams must be provided no later than 8 pm the day before the first of the series. In case of absence of composition given by the team, the standard composition given at registration will be taken into account (Article 1.2). The compositions will be published on the day of the GP.

Article 6.7a bis
A tolerance will be accepted by the organization for the compositions sent out of time. To avoid any abuse, this tolerance will be subject to 3 rules that accumulate
- There will be no more than 2 off-time submissions per season (for 5 submissions per season in total). Beyond 2 off-deadline shipments, the organization will refuse the composition and retain the standard team (Article 1.2).
- There will be no more composition accepted as soon as the table will be published.
- In any case, there will be no more composition accepted 5h before the start of the GP, 15h on the day of the GP.

Article 6.7b
In case of sending a non-compliant team composition (for example a player making 2 singles, prohibited by Article 1.1), there may be a notification (1) sent to the captain so that he can put his composition in accordance. To avoid abuse, 3 rules will be imposed:
- In the error notification, the organizer will have to set a deadline beyond which he will no longer accept the modification, and the organizer will refuse the composition and will align the standard team (Article 1.2).
- The team captain can only make one change to bring his team into compliance. It will be counted as 1 change an inversion between 2 already selected players (example inversion between a single player and a double player), or the entry of a new selected player. If the team needs to be modified more than 2 times to be compliant, the organizer will invalidate the team and align the team (Article 1.2).
- In any case, there will be no change accepted 5h before the start of the GP, or 15h on the day of the GP.
This Article 6.7b applies only to the compositions sent on time, that is to say before the day before the GP at 20h. If a composition sent out of time is invalid, the team will be invalidated and the model team will be aligned (Article 1.2).

Article 6.7c
When sending a composition during the season, if the skipper forgets to mention the substitute in time, the organizer must make sure to name one by following the steps below:
- The replacement of the typical team will be replaced.
- If the substitute of the team type is selected in the composition sent, the organizer will name as substitute the first available player of the team taking into account the rank of each player in the team (leader of team, rank 2, rank 3, etc.)

Article 6.7d
The teams can be communicated to the organization either by public road on the forum in the division of the team. Or in MP to the organization. In this last case the team will remain secret until the validation of all the teams.

Article 6.8
The teams' compositions sent in MP are kept during the 3 GPs of the match. A copy of a message may be provided to any team or player upon request. However, all claims must be submitted no later than 3 days after the first GP of the match.
- Special case of an error of the organizer. If the organizer makes a mistake when transcribing the teams, the team concerned also has 3 days to file a protest. In this case the organizer will make the modification and will display the message where the composition appears on the forum. The procedure will be the same in case of error during the retranscription of the results.
Important Note: All claims must be made by mp. All claims made on the forum of the cup will not be taken into account.
Note: All claims after doubles will no longer be taken into account, even if justified.

Article 6.9
To decide the players in a match, we take the team points that each player gets on a GP according to the rule of gpro 6.4 (system that allows to give the team points http://www.gpro.net/en /GPRORules.asp#6-les-quipes). In case of a tie, advantage will be given to that of the lower division (if a rookie and an amateur get the same number of points, advantage will be given to the rookie). If new tie, the players will be separated by their best time on the race.
Note: The rule gpro 6.4 for new players of a team (25% -50% -75%) will not be applied here. Each player will pay 100% of the points to his team.

Article 6.10
For the doubles match, the scores of both players will be added, In case of a tie, they will be determined by the best time of each team in the race.

(1) This notification is not systematic. It will depend on the day and time of sending the composition